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_refugee_  ·  2999 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In Defense of a Boring, Comfortable Life

Key #1: You want other people to think you are boring

Key #2: You want to find your life, personally, the opposite of that.

When a vast majority of other people find your life entertaining, interesting, worthy of being discussed, either you are extremely exceptional (and in your twenties, this is highly unlikely, although I guess you could be Chance the Rapper), or you are extremely dramatic. People love drama. It makes for great conversation fodder. Drama is bad for a stable life.

However, you should never be bored by your life. You should do what you love and what entertains you.

On the other hand, if "doing what you love" involves a) kicking up a lot of interpersonal fuss, or b) fussing up a lot of other people's lives, you should probably seriously re-think your motivations and why you need to be the center of attention all the time.

Be boring - to other people. Be immensely entertaining - to yourself.

Me, traveling to another country or staying at home - there is nothing inherently interesting to other people, generally, speaking, about that. Specifically, if I went to, say, Italy, and some person who knew me really wanted to go to Italy, that would or could be very interesting to that single other person. It would not be interesting to society in general.

Me, fucking someone's boyfriend while lying to my boyfriend about it - well, that's very interesting to a lot of people. All my friends, all that girl's friends, all that boyfriend's friends, all my boyfriend's friends. That's what you don't want to be. Or me, getting wasted at the bar so much so that I take my top off indoors and dance on a table. That's very interesting to everyone who sees me. You don't want that. Or, well, I know I don't want that. Do you? (And if you do: why?) Me failing a class is interesting gossip. Me doing well in a class is not. And so on.

I have all sorts of adventures. I entertain myself immensely. I think I am hilarious, and clever, and that my Twitter is full of unappreciated gems. That is all well and very good. You should have that about yourself.

But if a bunch of other random unattached or tertiarilly attached people start to find your life very interesting, you should really start to ask yourself why. And I doubt it will be because you are really great at making hilarious quips in 160 characters or less.

But it might be because you [insert dramatic, aka attention-grabbing, thing here]. At best, maybe you're supremely attractive. But hey, if you are, how did all these randos find out?